单词 | physiogony |
释义 | † physiogonyn. Obsolete. The generation, production, or development of nature; the branch of knowledge concerned with this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > generation of nature physiogony1824 physiogeny1858 1824 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1990) IV. §5144 As the..potius jussa et præfinita of Physiogony, which could have been ascertained by no lower authority. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 158 Their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of..substantiated abstractions; and their physiogony a blank or dreams of tradition. 1840 J. H. Green Vital Dynamics 103 The distinctive..aim..of physiogony is to present the history of Nature as preface and portion of the history of man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1824 |
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